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PST 2022-2023 Student Contests Open
We’re excited to announce our 2022-2023 Student Contests! We invite all eligible students to submit a poem, and we encourage Tennessee educators to involve their students in a contest. This year we offer up three contests, one each for elementary, middle and high school students: High School Division (Grades 9-12) Free Verse Poem — postmark deadline…
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Performance Opportunity in Knoxville TN
Sundress Reading Series Seeks Readers for Spring 2023 From February to May of 2023, the Sundress Reading Series will be back in person at their new venue, Pretentious Beer Co. in the Knoxville Old City. They now feature comedy and music alongside literary readings! The Sundress Reading Series is an award-winning literary reading series previously…
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November 2022 Program
In this talk, Blue Ridge native and award-winning poet Matthew Wimberley engages with the responsibilities of the writer when engaged with the particulars of place.
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Creating Regional Connections
Learn more about our new regional connections committee and meet the people from across our state who form it.
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October 2022 Program
In our writing, regardless of genre, we often need some level of research. Presenter Melissa Helton will discuss genealogical research and the process of writing her current manuscript, a family memoir in verse investigating our history, interrogating what that means as the descendent of colonizers in a white supremacist US, and what can be done…
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Tennessee Voices 2021-2022 Released
Tennessee Voices 2021-2022, PST’s anthology of winning contest poems (and more) is now available on Amazon for just $5.99. Order yours today!